Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Ana Falcato holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal . Between 2013 and 2015 she was Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel, Kant-Studien, Wittgenstein-Studien and Daimon: Revista International de Filosofía. She is currently a research fellow at IFILNOVA, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee. Antonio Cardiello holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has joint responsibility for the digitization of Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library, is co-author of A Biblioteca de Fernando Pessoa (2010), Os Objectos de Fernando Pessoa (2013) and of the first critical edition of Obra Completa de Álvaro de Campos (2014). He currently works as scientific consultant for Fernando Pessoa House.

• Introduction; Ana Falcato and Antonio Cardiello.- Part I. Writing Philosophy.- 2. Habit, Labour, Need and Desire; Michael Levenson.- 3. Wittgenstein as unreliable narrator/unreliable author; Rupert Read.- 4. Embodied Ghosts; Ana Falcato.- Part II. Language and Contents.- 5.The Medium Itself; Garry Hagberg.-  6.Encountering the Alien; Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin.- 7. “Stories to Meditate on; Alice Crary.- Part III.  Modern Topics.- 8. “Thought in American and for the Americans”; Laura Maria Lojo-Rodriguez.- 9. “But she loved her roses (didn’t that help the Armenians?)”; Katerina Kitsi-Mitako.- 10.Virginia Woolf and The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002); María José Gamez-Fuentes and Rebeca Maseda García..- Part IV.  Historical Perspectives.- 11. Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money without Narrative Qualities; Mathias Nilges.- 12. Marianne Moore and the Logic of ‘Inner Sensuousness’; Charles Altieri.- 13. Intimidated Thought; Michael D’Arcy.- 14. A Quotation from Seneca is Missing; Jerónimo Pizarro.- Part V. Dystopias of the Self.- 15. The Well is not the World; Stephen Mulhall.- 16. Pictorial Decorum; Jonathan Gilmore.- 17. “Navegar é preciso; Viver não é preciso”; Bartholomew Ryan.- Index.